A conference titled "Countering Illicit Arms Trafficking in the Context of Fighting International Terrorism" will take place in Russia's capital, Moscow, on 3-4 September at the World Trade Center, organized by the Russian Foreign Ministry and other Russian ministries and agencies.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 03rd September, 2018) A conference titled "Countering Illicit Arms Trafficking in the Context of Fighting International Terrorism" will take place in Russia's capital, Moscow, on 3-4 September at the World Trade Center, organized by the Russian Foreign Ministry and other Russian ministries and agencies.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will open the conference with a welcoming address that will begin after 14:45 local time on September 3. Under-Secretary-General of the UN, Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime Yuri Fedotov is also expected to address the conference, in one of the three thematic sessions, along with experts, political scientists, researchers and civil society activists.
At a briefing of the UN Security Council on August 23, Vasily Nebenzya, Russia's permanent representative to the United Nations, stated that the conference could serve as a platform to discuss how terrorist organizations, such as the Islamic State terrorist group (banned in Russia), were obtaining weaponry.
The conference will be attended by representatives from 21 countries, along with representatives from Russia's Federal Security Service, Foreign Intelligence Service, and other government bodies and agencies. Heads of 11 counter terrorist units in international organizations have confirmed their attendance.
The conference was announced by Alexey Polishchuk, the deputy director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Department of European Cooperation at the OSCE Annual Security Review Conference. According to Polischuk, the conference will tackle the crucial issue of stopping any type of weaponry from reaching terrorist organizations.
